Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] tools: install under /usr/local by default.

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 10:57 +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>         This is the defacto (or FHS mandated?) standard location for
>         software
>         built from source, in order to avoid clashing with packaged
>         software
>         which is installed under /usr/bin etc.
> 
> So if someone just does "./configure && make deb", the .deb will
> install stuff in /usr/local.  Is that what we want?

Given that the purpose of the deb target is not to produce a policy
compliant deb but simply to be a thing which can be uninstalled somewhat
easily I think it is acceptable if a little unusual.

I see the .deb as as special case of the "local admin building from
source" case rather than a special case of the "Debian package" case.

Ian.



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